Could ebike 4X ever work!?

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I wanted to ask you about uh well ebikes could there be any version of forc cross that involves a climb and an ebike yeah two laps backwards yeah how insane would it be I was thinking about a town center race B clim brilliant we’ve talked about it um for I’m talking with British cycling a minute obviously now I’m an organizer I’m a athlete podcaster organizer I’m trying to cover all the bases nowadays but uh influencer influence yeah all this stuff um yeah we talked about ebike like how can we incorporate them into a British for cross race so it would be two laps of track starting the Finish Line you race the track backwards back down and do two laps something like that or or do the track normal way and two laps would work whatever so yeah that’s where an ebike could maybe come in the only thing would be on the start gate the start would have to change because obviously as soon as you put a bit of pressure on an ebike it starts engaging you don’t want that with a start gate that’s that’s up and then people are over to bars and whatever

Could ebike 4X ever work!?

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